George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Encouraging Quotes, Conceited Quotes

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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